The Vipava Valley, through which Alboin led the Lombards into ItalyAs a precautionary move Alboin strengthened his alliance with the Avars, signing what Paul calls a foedus perpetuum (" perpetual treaty ") and what is referred to in the 9th-century Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani as a pactum et foedus amicitiae (" pact and treaty of friendship "), adding that the treaty was put down on paper.

It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

At the same time the infantry switched to 5. 56 mm weapons, carbines like the AKS-74U ( which fired a Warsaw pact 5. 45x39 round ) and CAR-15 were being developed.

In 1954, when the United States dispatched the Military Assistance Advisory Group for West Pakistan, the East Pakistan Parliament signed a statement, which denounced Pakistan's government for signing a military pact with the United States.

There are also military ties between Afghanistan and India, which is expected to increase after the October 2011 strategic pact that was signed by President Karzai and Manmohan Singh.

In 1977, Hayek was critical of the Lib-Lab pact, in which the British Liberal Party agreed to keep the British Labour government in office.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, following the French Revolution of 1789, a hugely influential grimoire was published under the title of the Grand Grimoire, which was considered particularly powerful because it involved conjuring and making a pact with the Devil's chief minister, Lucifugé Rofocale, in order to gain wealth from him.

In 1939, the Polish government rejected the German offer of forming an alliance on terms which would amount to an end or severe curtailment of Poland's sovereignty ; Hitler abrogated the Polish-German pact.

On August 23, 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov – Ribbentrop non-aggression pact, which secretly provided for the dismemberment of Poland into Nazi and Soviet-controlled zones.

India and Japan signed a security cooperation agreement in which both will hold military exercises, police the Indian Ocean and conduct military-to-military exchanges on fighting terrorism, making India one of only three countries, the other two being the United States and Australia, with which Japan has such a security pact.

" Another development which brought about a radical change in Indian politics was the espousal of Hindu-Muslim unity with the Lucknow pact at the annual meeting of the Congress in December 1916.

The pact had been initiated earlier in the year at Allahabad at a meeting of the All-India Congress Committee which was held at the Nehru residence at Anand Bhawan.

In 1676, Legnica passed to direct Habsburg rule after the death of the last Silesian Piast duke, Georg Wilhelm ( son of Duke Christian of Brieg ), despite the earlier inheritance pact by Brandenburg and Silesia, by which it was to go to Brandenburg.

His pact with Muhammad bin Saud helped to establish the first Saudi state and began a dynastic alliance and power-sharing arrangement between their families which continues to the present day.

This agreement became a " mutual support pact " and power-sharing arrangement between the Al Saud and the Al ash-Sheikh, which has remained in place for nearly 300 years, providing the ideological impetus to Saudi expansion.

On 24 August a 10-year non-aggression pact was signed with provisions that included: consultation ; arbitration if either party disagreed ; neutrality if either went to war against a third power ; no membership of a group " which is directly or indirectly aimed at the other.

Most notably, there was also a secret protocol to the pact, revealed only after Germany's defeat in 1945, according to which Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland were divided into German and Soviet " spheres of influence ".

The Soviet Union and Germany signed a non-aggression pact, the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact, shortly before the German invasion of Poland which triggered the Second World War in 1939 and was followed by the Soviet invasion of Poland.

The countries entered a trade pact in 1940, in which the Soviets received German military and industrial equipment in exchange for raw materials, such as oil or wheat, to help Germany circumvent a British blockade.

His cousin, Ernesto Pacelli, was a key financial advisor to Pope Leo XIII ; his father, Filippo Pacelli, a Franciscan tertiary, was the dean of the Sacra Rota Romana ; and his brother, Francesco Pacelli, became a lay canon lawyer and the legal advisor to Pius XI, in which role he negotiated the Lateran Treaty in 1929, the pact with Benito Mussolini, bringing an end to the Roman Question.

On the conclusion of talks in London, Britain agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on the 27 of April 1961. however, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens was the only delegate who refused to sign Sierra Leone's declaration of Independendence on the grounds that there had been a secret defence pact between Sierra Leone and Britain ; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held before independence which would effectively shut him out of Sierra Leone's political process.

Native American casinos located in reservations are not permitted to have slot machines unless the tribe first reaches a pact with the state in which it is located ( per Indian Gaming Regulatory Act ).

Before taking effect though, the Franco-Soviet pact was required to go through the bureaucracy of the League of Nations, which rendered it essentially toothless.

So, Isaac unearthed them and began to dig for more wells all the way to Beersheba, where he made a pact with Abimelech, just like in the day of his father.

That same day, Stalin received assurance that Germany would approve secret protocols to the proposed non-aggression pact that would place half of Poland ( border along the Vistula river ), Latvia, Estonia, Finland, and Bessarabia in the Soviets ' sphere of influence.

" That day, Hitler told the British ambassador to Berlin that the pact with the Soviets prevented Germany from facing a two front war, changing the strategic situation from that in World War I, and that Britain should accept his demands regarding Poland.

The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.

The following day, November 9, a council, headed by archbishop Trolle, sentenced the proscribed to death for being heretics ; the main point of accusation was their having united in a pact to depose Trolle a few years earlier.

He summons Mephisto, who overcomes Faust's reluctance to sign a pact by telling him he can try it for one day with no obligation.

At the end of that day, having been restored to youth and helped by Mephisto to steal a beautiful woman from her wedding feast, Faust is sufficiently tempted that he agrees to extend the pact for eternity.

With Portugal finally recognized as an independent country by his neighbours, Denis signed a border pact with Ferdinand IV of Castile ( 1297 ) which has endured to the present day.

While the Conservative government of the day would have preferred not to create a single body covering the whole of London, their electoral pact with Liberal Unionists led them to this policy.

On 7 October, however, he revealed that the UPP and the FLP were close to finalizing a draft agreement for consideration, and on 16 October he announced that the UPP executive had approved an electoral pact with the FLP the day before.

In his insane jealousy the Bishop made a demonic pact to ensure they would be " Always together ; eternally apart ": by day Isabeau becomes a hawk, by night Navarre becomes a wolf.

Marriage between Saud's son, Abdul Aziz Ibn Mohammed Ibn Saud, and the daughter of the Imam helped to seal the pact between their families which has lasted through the centuries to present day.

There were rumours in September that Sirat and Mohaqiq had formed a pact with Qanuni, whilst Gailani and Aarian declared their support for Karzai on the last day of campaigning, October 6.

On September 1, 1945, or one day before the surrender documents of World War II were signed on September 2, 1945, after the denounciation of the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in April 1945 and the declaration of war on Japan on August 9, 1945 ( formally, the pact itself remained in effect until April 13, 1946 ), according to decisions of the Yalta Conference, Soviet Union annexed the Kuril Islands and the mainly disputed Northern territories, which Japanese government claims that they are not parts of Kuril Islands for historical reasons, and landed on the disputed island.

As part of the pact he made to keep himself demon, he was promised Ascension one day: a " promotion ", of sorts, from partial demon to full demon.

According to demonology, there is a specific month, day of the week, and hour to call each demon, so the invocation for a pact has to be done at the right time.

One day, Bo-eun's grandfather orders her to marry Sang-min ( Kim Rae-won ) because of a pact he made with Sang-min's grandfather during the Korean War.

The pact became effective on the day it was signed.

The resolution called for a day of remembrance for victims of both Stalinism and Nazism to be marked every August 23, the date in 1939 when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of neutrality with a secret protocol that divided parts of Central and Eastern Europe between their spheres of influence.

On 16 October, the UPP announced that negotiations to form an electoral pact with the FLP had been concluded, and the decision to go ahead had been endorsed by the UPP executive the day before.